Thanks to Marcia at The Printed Page for hosting Mailbox Monday. I got two in the mail this week, and both made me hop around the house chanting “Look what I got.”
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God’s Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life—has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God’s Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.
Have others survived? Ren’s bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers . . .
Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo’hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can’t stay locked away . . .
By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story.
Mikael Blomkvist—crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium—has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.
On the eve of publication, the two reporters responsible for the story are brutally murdered. But perhaps more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander.
Now, as Blomkvist—alone in his belief in her innocence—plunges into his own investigation of the slayings, Salander is drawn into a murderous hunt in which she is the prey, and which compels her to revisit her dark past in an effort to settle with it once and for all.
What books found their way to your house this week?
I’m envious of The Girl Who Played with Fire! I hope you enjoy it!
Two I’m not familiar with! Great mailbox.
I have the Atwood book, and envy your Larsson book! Happy reading! My mailbox is here.
I’m so jealous you got the Atwood book! I’m still hoping I will get it too. Enjoy!
I’ll be reading Year of the Flood as well. I want to read the Oryx and Crake I think it’s called – it’s apparantely the book before this one although from what I hear you don’t have to read it first. Enjoy-you got two good ones there!
Wow–I’d have been hopping around, too, to get these two books!
Enjoy Year of the Flood! Like avisannschild, I’m envious of everyone who already has it 😛
I have the Atwood book, too. Enjoy!
–Anna